Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ralph Coghlan last year wrote a rousing editorial that began: "St. Louis is confronted with a reeking, stinking scandal, and Circuit Judge Eugene L. Padberg is sitting right in the middle of it. ..." Fitzpatrick upheld his end with a cartoon series showing politicians and racketeers together in an ugly, symbolical St. Louis sidestreet called "Rat Alley...
...last fortnight marble-eyed, pudgy Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe handed down a decision dismissing extortion charges against Putty Nose Brady. (Big John had already been acquitted on one charge, has another hanging over him.) The Post-Dispatch editorialized scornfully: "Those hardy spectators, who gathered in the hope that drama . . . would unfold, saw what fell little short of a burlesque on justice...
Next morning, in another courtroom, Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oakley gave out a separate decision in a civil action, held that Big John Nick had received the money, ordered him to pay the union $10,000. Editor Coghlan's temper boiled over. Into the Post-Dispatch he hurled an angry editorial...
Last week the law's majesty cracked down-not on Rat Alley, but on the Post-Dispatch. Sharp, cantankerous Circuit Attorney Franklin Miller (whose prosecution of the case against Putty Nose was called by the Post-Dispatch "one more in his 11-year record of dismal flops") filed an information for contempt of court against the Post-Dispatch, its Editors Reese and Coghlan. its Cartoonist Fitzpatrick. Judge Rowe decided there was cause for action, ordered all three to appear in court this week...
...were the skeletons of California's Senator David C. Broderick, killed in the West's most noted duel, in 1859, by California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry; Nevada's Senator William Sharon, Comstock Lode proprietor who entertained President Grant on gold plate in 1879; California Circuit Court Judge M. Hall McAllister, who sired Socialite Ward McAllister; William M. Bourn, whose money bought the Killarney Lakes for the Irish Free State...